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I hope I’m wrong, but I’ve seen this pattern a couple of times with close friends: they get obsessed with a topic, their sleep falls apart, they seem manic, and eventually they sta…

Don’t mean to pick on you specifically, but this comment feels like a pretty good distillation of a certain mindset you often see in Googlers: * we know better * we judge everythin…

Could you provide more details? Although I've never had the opportunity to use Datadog at any of my previous positions, I am quite familiar with Grafana and I'm generally pretty ha…

I think you're missing the point. The idea is more that avoiding a victim mentality typically leads to better outcomes. This isn't a surefire guarantee, but statistically, it tends…

Anyone has any info on any specific teams that got cut?

ah, fair point

Genuinely curious — is there some jurisdiction where the law is "if the pedestrian is in the wrong it's fine to go over them"?

Similar story here. Me and my partner befriended another couple through grad school in our early 20s and the next few years were just the best — we would go to bars, movies, horse …

I don't understand why so many people have such a hard time justifying this. * If the bank collapses then many startups shut down. This is bad, but okay, maybe you think startups a…

Startups don’t hire CFOs until the revenue is in 10s of millions of ARR. And most companies don’t ever get there.

So how did you manage your treasury when you were running your businesses? Did you split it 10 ways? Did you buy t bills?

Stock Options?

How is it not? That’s what technological progress has always been doing for ages. That’s why we have all the good things.

I feel similarly. My favorite things about running a business are: * The variety of problems I get to work on. I write code, I do sales calls, I manage people, I negotiate contract…

See, generally speaking I don't think this is a bad deal. I mean, I don't know the exact numbers / company profile. But I was in a similar situation 8 years ago. I could early exer…

> I cannot with good conscience continue to support the Russian regime in any way, shape or form. People that are getting angry need to point that at the cause, their own governmen…

I'm having a hard time parsing why he would post this. Did he think he'd get customers? I doubt it. Investors? They already raised hundreds of millions. To me it seems like the onl…

Is there any good books for people new to ADHD diagnosis?

What kind of doctor do you go to with this? I’ve never gone to anyone other than my primary care doctor and the spectrum of titles mental health professionals have makes it all ver…

Yeah, but how are you going to get likes on those tweets?

I like the people I follow but they get like 5 likes on interesting things they have to say, and 500 likes on depressing takes like "computers were a mistake", or "everything is ba…

step 3 — quit reading twitter

Tell us about your first enterprise sale. How far along were you? How did you find the customer? How long was the process? Also, congrats!

I don't know the whole story so maybe there is something more to your argument, but on face value this doesn't sound like a strong argument. Early stage investing is high volume, l…